Columbia Experimental 78, supposedly recorded off WEAF Radio, NY

"W-Recording" Made at Western Electric Lab. (June 19, 1925) 

W170076-1 Let it rain by Ben Bernie's Orchestra T.174

Ben Bernie WEAF

Ben Bernie - Let It Rain, Let It Pour - WEAF,  June 19, 1925

Time Alone Will Tell

Glenn Miller AAF Band with Johnny Desmond - White Christmas 1943

Spike Hughes 1944

Spike Hughes - Long Ago & Far Away

Nocturne 78, recorded December 1940. Fredda Gibson (Georgia Gibbs), vocal.

Bunny Berigan:  Pepsi-Cola Jingle

20th Fox TCF-77 - 1941 Original Soundtrack 78 disc from SUN VALLEY SERENADE"

Sun Valley Serenade

Glenn Miller - It Happened in Sun Valley

78 Soundtrack disc from 1942 Universal film, RIDE 'EM COWBOY - UPS-255

Fox Discs

Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket - 1942 soundtrack

Little Tommy Dix, with the big booming baritone voice, introduced this standard in the 1941 Broadway musical, BEST FOOT FORWARD and repeated it in the 1943 MGM film version. This Coronet 78 version dates from around 1947.

Tommy Dix

Buckle Down Winsocki

Little Tommy Dix, with the big booming baritone voice, was best known for his role in BEST FOOT FORWARD on Broadway and in the film. Here's his 1947 Coronet 78 version of the classic anthem from SHOW BOAT.

Ol' Man River - Tommy Dix

David Kenney & I share music and conversation about the upcoming NJ Jazz Record Bash (jazzbash.net) on his WBAI-FM radio program, "Everything Old is New Again." https://oldisnew.org

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Carmen - Glenn Miller, Billy May arr. 7/23/41

For Woodbury Soap

Bing Crosby & the Boswell Sisters - St. Louis Blues - 1934

Teddy Stauffer & His Original Teddies. Telefunken test pressing, April 1938. Recorded in Berlin.

Berlin - Sounds Of An Era

Teddy Stauffer - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön

GLENN MILLER IS MISSING - AEF BAND Christmas Program. December 25, 1944.

GLENN MILLER AEF BAND - Christmas Greetings 1944

Featuring Mahlon Clark, clarinet.  July 1942 Capitol session, never issued.

Glenn Miller Fans

Ray McKinley - LONG ISLAND CLARINET

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, December 21, 1939. Helen Forrest's debut with the band.  Eddie Sauter arrangement (?)

Benny Goodman & Helen Forrest - Does Your Heart Beat For Me?

Performance cut from the film, BIG BROADCAST OF 1937.

Victor special pressing PBS 97717-1

Benny Goodman & Benny Fields - Night In Manhattan (1936)

Helen Ward & Buddy Clark sing Johnny Green's "Not Bad," from one of the first LET'S DANCE NBC programs by Benny Goodman, December 1934. Transferred from the original aircheck lacquer, which was recorded for arranger Joe Lipman. 

Not Bad - Benny Goodman

Gloria & the Savitt band in another luscious 1942 recording.

Romance A La Mode - Gloria DeHaven & Jan Savitt

From the soundtrack of PRIVATE BUCKAROO (1942), the only vocal rendition by Forrest with James. 

You Made Me Love You - Harry James & Helen Forrest

JIMMIE LUNCEFORD 1940 12" lacquer radio aircheck - unrecorded Sy Oliver jazz instrumental "Take It." Broadcast from the Fiesta Danceteria in NYC, Summer 1940.

Take It - Jimmie Lunceford

An unissued 1942 Columbia 78 test pressing by Ginny Simms of "The Story of Peter and the Wolf." Matrix H-764-1, recorded 3/29/42.

Capitol

GINNY SIMMS - The Story Of Peter And The Wolf

Artie Shaw soundtrack --from Dancing Co-ed (labeled on disc as Dancing Co-eds)

DJW Movie Studio Disc Collection (98 tracks) [DJW-ToNY]

Artie Shaw - One Foot in the Groove - soundtrack 7-19-1939

Priscilla Lane sings the Arlen-Mercer song from "Blues in the Night"  1941 film soundtrack

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